Point guard may be the most important and deepest position in the NBA. This free agency, a few quality PGs hit free agency. Kyle Lowry was retained by the Raptors for a reasonable price, while Isaiah Thomas switched teams to join Phoenix, also for a reasonable price. Finally, Eric Bledsoe remains unsigned, his fate uncertain. Let's break down the game of all three of these players.
What exactly is PAA? The easiest answer to that is that it is a discrete, HIGHLY simplified version of Kirk Goldsberry's EPV. Why do I say that? Basically EPV and PAA both try to capture how many points a given player contributes to his team above what a hypothetically average player would have in the same situations. PAA is highly simplified because it only looks at the end state, instead of tracking the motion throughout, and because it can't control for the quality of a player's shot or how good his pass was or what his other options at the time were. If you're still confused (I would be) I'll try to clear it up by showing how PAA would measure a given play in a game. Let's look at maybe the most famous play of the last few years:
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